Rack for hanging stove utensils



(No Model.)

. 0. WEAVER. RACK FOR HANGING STOVE UTENSILS.

Patented Feb. 7,-1893.

ZJmw/wbo v l jzwjoow Oscar Mayer awa UNTTED STATES PATENT OFFICE OSCAR WEAVER, OF MAUCII CHUNK, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JACOB MILLER, OF WEATHERLY, PENNSYLVANIA.

RACK FOR HANGING STOVE UTENSILS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 491,502, dated February 7, 1893.

Application filed December 17, 1891. Serial No. 415,398. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that LOSOAR WEAVER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Mauch Chunk, in the county of Carbon and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Racks for Hanging Stove Utensils; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention,such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention has relation to an improved rack for hanging stove'utensils and the like; and its novelty will be fully understood from the following description and claim when taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawing in which the figure is a perspective view of myimproved rack.

Referring by letter to the said drawing: A indicates the back-board of my improved rack, which may be of any suitable shape and size; and 13 indicates my improved dust pan holder which is preferably formed of a single piece of spring wire.

In the formation of my improved dust pan holder, I secure the end of a piece of wire to the back-board, A, in any suitable manner, and holding the said wire in a position at right angles to the back-board, I bend it upon itself and preferably twist and curve it to form one of the hooks, C, which are designed in practice to support a poker, brush or the like. After the formation of the hook, C, the wire is carried toward the back-board, and is looped and secured to said board as indicated at a and h, after which it is curved orbent to form the spring-coil, D, which merges into an upwardly-extending branch 0, which in turn merges into the longitudinal bar, E, which rests in a plane parallel with the backboard and is designed to hold a dust pan against the same as presently described. At

the opposite end of the bar, E, which is of the approximate proportional length shown, the wire is curved and bent to form the branch, 0, coil, D, and hook, C, and is secured to the back'board as at the other end of the said bar.

By the provision of the spring coils, D, it will be readily perceived that the bar, E, is yieldingly pressed against the back-board, and that it will serve in practice to bind and hold a dust pan against the back-board and in position.

From the foregoing description, it will be readily perceived that I have provided a rack for the purpose described, of a cheap, simple and durable construction upon which the several utensils may be readily hung and as readily removed when desirable.

Although I have specifically described the construction and relative arrangement of the several elements of my improved rack, yet I do not desire to be confined to the same, as such changes or modifications may be made as fairly fall within the scope of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

The combination with the back board B, of a rack constructed of a single piece of wire bent and twisted nearits ends into hooks C, and spring coils D, the central portion constituting a horizontal bar E, which bears normally against the back board when the rack is in place, and the ends of the wire forming means of attachment to the back board, sub stantially as and for the purposes specified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

OSCAR VEAVER.

Vitnesses:

ALFRED WEYHENMEYER, A. W. POTTER. 

